[MOD] FusionMP (StreamedMP with Aeon elements) (1 Viewer)

[FoxForceFive]

Nice one Trevor, now all matches perfectly with 1.1.38!

Is there some sort of way to tell what menu item is highlighted with the "Aeon 2" mod of this mod? The original has that little down arrow over whatever is selected but that doesn't seem to show in the newer one. I noticed there's an option for "drop shadow" under highlighted item but that does nothing for me.

Minor quibble I know, but believe it or not it can be confusing sometimes to tell which menu item is selected, at least if you are me

The selected one should be a much. much lighter colour than the others, (you can even change those colours if you wish by playing round with the editor, 'Focus item colour' & 'Non focus item colour' have codes you can change) & the highlighted/selected item is always in the centre of the screen too!

I actually edited the graphics on the last one to remove the 'arrow' as it was redundant for this very reason.

 

[trevor]

Is there some sort of way to tell what menu item is highlighted with the "Aeon 2" mod of this mod? The original has that little down arrow over whatever is selected but that doesn't seem to show in the newer one. I noticed there's an option for "drop shadow" under highlighted item but that does nothing for me.

Minor quibble I know, but believe it or not it can be confusing sometimes to tell which menu item is selected, at least if you are me

Try these values for Focus & NoFocus

Focus item colour: DCDCDC
Alpha : FF

No Focus item colour:636363
Alpha :80

These are settings I use should produce a menu as the last screenshot I uploaded.

One of things that was on a list of possible enhancments was to have a preview...may see whats involved with that...

Thanks

 

[Jammyz]

Hi All
I found a little bug.. as you can see on the attached image
Maybe depending by resolution of my screen (1920x1080)

Bye

trevor thank you for your editor

 

[trevor]

Hi All
I found a little bug.. as you can see on the attached image
Maybe depending by resolution of my screen (1920x1080)

Bye

@Trevor thank you for your editor

Ah...this was always going to be problem, in order to allow the font for the menu I have to overwrite one of the std fonts, this being mediastream28tc which happend to be ued in the fusion movingpictures skin file, the result is what you are seeing.

There seems to a limit (may be by design or a bug) to the number of fonts that can be defined in fonts.xml and StreamedMP uses the all!

The fix would be to supply a modified xml for the movingpictures fusion mod, this will start to get messy I fear with having to have this version to have that option enabled etc etc.

I could most likley sort this in the editor, checking movingpictures skin version and re-writing that lable control....

What we really need is to able to define more than 19 fonts....

Let me see what I can do...

Thanks

 

[Bobb25]

All,

Just uploaded Version 1.1.30.0 to the Google Code site.


Changes

• Added support to adjust the Alpha channel on the Menu Item Focus/NoFocus
• Added support for Aeon 2 Style Menu/RSS bar & Font
  This requires additional GFX and optionally a new font.
• Rearranged the screen for the new options.

The included readme covers installation instructions.

Enjoy

When i set this up, for some reason all the titles are white? I see in your screenshot only the highlighted title (TV) is white.... have i done something wrong?

 

[trevor]

When i set this up, for some reason all the titles are white? I see in your screenshot only the highlighted title (TV) is white.... have i done something wrong?

Need to set the Focus and NoFocus colours - see this post


Cheers

 

[ixian]

Seconding Trevor - Thanks for that focus color change/tip btw Trevor, it works really well, in fact now it's far better than the old way of highlighting the menu.

I doubt I'll be alone in saying that you should make the "new" mod of this mod the default and scrap the old way entirely. I know everyone has opinions but the fact is your newer version is much closer to the XBMC Aeon look, and isn't that the whole point? If you just focus on the new look it'll probably simplify your day.

Besides, last I looked at StreamedMP's dev code they were planning on putting a basic "horizontal" option in the regular editor anyway (maybe that was you doing it?) - you could have the standard editor offer the old, basic horizontal look, and this one be the fancy-pants version. Just a thought.

 

[trevor]

Seconding Trevor - Thanks for that focus color change/tip btw Trevor, it works really well, in fact now it's far better than the old way of highlighting the menu.

I doubt I'll be alone in saying that you should make the "new" mod of this mod the default and scrap the old way entirely. I know everyone has opinions but the fact is your newer version is much closer to the XBMC Aeon look, and isn't that the whole point? If you just focus on the new look it'll probably simplify your day.

Besides, last I looked at StreamedMP's dev code they were planning on putting a basic "horizontal" option in the regular editor anyway (maybe that was you doing it?) - you could have the standard editor offer the old, basic horizontal look, and this one be the fancy-pants version. Just a thought.

Thanks for the comments and I think you are right that the new way should be the default but will always leave the option to produce the older look.

I have a version of the editor that does combine the current StreamedMP editor as shipped with the slkin and my version - only about 80% finished though as keep going off on tagents

Did not see the StreamedMP team were planning of putting the horizontal look in, better have a word as we could end up duplicating work. My plan was to produce more of a total StreamedMP editor - allow you design a basichome for both vertical or horizontal + reconfigure the skin options you only current see during install.

Funny to think I only really started this as a way to learn c# and VS.....

 

[ixian]

It's an issue in their bug tracker. I don't know if that means they are actually working on it; it's marked low priority.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Seconding Trevor - Thanks for that focus color change/tip btw Trevor, it works really well, in fact now it's far better than the old way of highlighting the menu.

I doubt I'll be alone in saying that you should make the "new" mod of this mod the default and scrap the old way entirely. I know everyone has opinions but the fact is your newer version is much closer to the XBMC Aeon look, and isn't that the whole point? If you just focus on the new look it'll probably simplify your day.

Besides, last I looked at StreamedMP's dev code they were planning on putting a basic "horizontal" option in the regular editor anyway (maybe that was you doing it?) - you could have the standard editor offer the old, basic horizontal look, and this one be the fancy-pants version. Just a thought.

Thanks for the comments and I think you are right that the new way should be the default but will always leave the option to produce the older look.

I have a version of the editor that does combine the current StreamedMP editor as shipped with the slkin and my version - only about 80% finished though as keep going off on tagents

Did not see the StreamedMP team were planning of putting the horizontal look in, better have a word as we could end up duplicating work. My plan was to produce more of a total StreamedMP editor - allow you design a basichome for both vertical or horizontal + reconfigure the skin options you only current see during install.

Funny to think I only really started this as a way to learn c# and VS.....

Sounds fantastic, & really should be bundled with StreamedMP at some point, should both you & they agree of course.

You didnt have previous experience with c# & VS? You sure picked it up quick!